Eduard Basurin

Eduard Basurin (27 June 1966-) was a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Donetsk People's Republic who commanded the Kalmius Battalion during the Ukrainian Civil War.

Biography
Eduard Basurin was born on 27 June 1966 in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, in the Soviet Union. In 2014 he joined the Donetsk People's Republic separatists in the Ukrainian Civil War, and he became Deputy Defense Minister and defense spokesman. He also rose to become the political commissar of the Kalmius Battalion of the DPR.